Scientist Teach Plastic To Walk On Its Own

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Sounds like an obvious joke or prank but this experiment has been making a great deal of progress so far.

 

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a30139271/scientists-train-plastic-walk/

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Scientists have trained plastic to walk on its own using a combination of photosensitive bio-inspiration and light-reactive coatings. Look at it go! 

The scientists use an analogy to Pavlov’s dog, but the truth is more like how a plant bends toward the sun and away from darkness. Light and heat reaction induce constriction or expansion that bends joints and enables motion. For plants, any Pavlovian reaction is built in because the light itself is the food. But the plastic robot is trained to respond to light even after the heat stimulus is removed, which is the Pavlovian side.

One reason the walking plastic robot is a big deal is that it isn’t computer-programmed. There’s no code or algorithm in the traditional sense. In a way, the walking plastic is like the conductive circuitry that powers the computer rather than its programs.

 

 

A sample is shown in this video :

https://hmg.h-cdn.co/videos/dec-05-2019-15-43-34-1575579827.mp4

 

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